It's true that springs do come to this world for some - full of beauty and wealth - with its sweet smelling breeze perfumed with newly bloomed flowers and spiced with cuckoo's song, but such good things remained well outside the sphere where my sight remained imprisoned. I have witnessed endless injustice to these people, unfair intolerable indiscriminate justice. They inspired me to take up their case and plead for them. I'm forever indebted to the deprived, ordinary people who give this world everything they have and yet receive nothing in return, to the weak and oppressed people whose tears nobody bothers to notice and to the endlessly hassled, distressed (weighed down by life) and helpless people who don't even have a moment to think that: despite having everything, they have right to nothing. 'My literary debt is not limited to my predecessors only. Some of his best known novels are Palli Samaj (1916), Charitraheen (1917), Devdas (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Srikanta in four parts (1917, 1918, 19), Griha Daha (1920), Sesh Prasna (1929) and Sesher Parichay published posthumously (1939). Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of thousands of readers not only in Bengal but all over India. A prolific writer, he found the novel an apt medium for depicting this and, in his hands, it became a powerful weapon of social and political reform. Much of his writing bears the mark of the resultant turbulence of society. Saratchandra came to maturity at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness.

He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived-‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father-his imagination and love of literature. His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children.

He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:

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